I was hashtag influenced into buying a microwave toastie maker & I'm so pleased with my life choices. I can't shut up telling everyone about it ... #toastie #toastieseason #coeliac #glutenfree #beckyexcell

Nina Simone ✨ bravo to the #Celebritytraitors sound department

Happy #Traitors day to all who celebrate!

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

I'm assuming #TaylorSwift is doing the tombola for the Fete of Ophelia

RIP Jane Goodall, zoologist, primatologist, the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees & the inspiration for millions of young women who wanted to become scientists, including me. She also believed in Bigfoot. Go well into the great forest you wonderful human 💔

Teenagers are flirting on the bus. This is an actual hell.

Acorn palette, late September 2025

I don't often buy myself board games but this one i couldn't resist...

I've given @mrtimnewman.bsky.social my stinking cold. Whoops...

There is a touch of the 'F*** you' from Birmingham establishments in terms of Coeliac safe food. Understand not everyone can accommodate me but... still. An attempt would be nice 🙈

It feels like the government keeps turning the big overhead light back on

Still life. Cat on a Chaise Lounge. 2025.

Remembering that it’s Fat Bear Week has certainly perked me up after a blue day yesterday. BRING ON THE CHONKERS #FatBearWeek #art

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

A little #FamilyHistory thread today - some families have things they built, discoveries they have made, a famous great great great something. My family has a large piece of national infrastructure we destroyed. 1/

We don’t all share the same internet. The personalised algorithm has siloed us into parallel worlds

autumn is in the air and i’m loving it! the breeze is cooler, the days feel slower 🍂 looking forward to cozy moments and slowing down a little 🫖

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

When I was younger my Uncle had a girlfriend who used to draw us amazing cards & artwork, was so exciting. It feels strange but somewhat full circle that I am now 'Auntie Helen ' providing my friends kids with cards & art that go up on their walls & are (hopefully) cherished ❤️

My weird impossible thing I want is that I think the fox from Disney’s Robin Hood should be in more movies. Like not the voice actor (though he was awesome) or the character of Robin himself, but the nonexistent imaginary cartoon fox actor who PLAYED Robin, because that guy is the best

My first #BakeOff as a Coeliac. The urgent need for cake is still there, I ran around trying to find whatever GF emergency cake I'd stashed away. In my mania I climbed on a cardboard box I thought was a chair (yes the box has the clean washing on. My bad) careered into a wall & wrenched my arm...

Aitch oh tee tee oh gee oh and have nap.

Spent my weekend painting this. Sanded, primed & gloss painted a pine chest from a charity shop & then decorated with canal style roses. About 6 months in the planning, feels good to have 'done the thing' #Bankholidayweekend #craftsky #folkart #canalart #canalcrafts #traditionalcrafts #painting

Yes horrors, we know you persist 🙄

ME: (the angriest I’ve ever been at my cat) MY CAT: counterpoint: little feets

It’s been converted.

I'm enjoying @mrtimnewman.bsky.social reading a chapter of @benaaronovitch.bsky.social 's 'Stone & Sky' each evening (so we can 'read' it at the same time) he's doing all the accents...in this particular chapter we've got: London, Scouse, Canadian, Scottish & West Country. Luckily Tim is skilled 👌

I've seen a few social media posts this morning that made me baffled that the idea of the 'American Dream' fantasy still exists. The whole medical system for a start...those fees are WILD. For all it's failings - Gawd bless the NHS ✊. That and the lack of decent maternity/paternity leave. Messed up

The overwhelming 80s/90s baby urge to live in a boathouse or a warehouse loft

Behold interwebs. My amazing boyo @mrtimnewman.bsky.social made the most incredible GF Yorkshire puddings today. The man's a wizard...🤯 #glutenfree #glutenfreefood #glutenfreedinner #coeliacfriendly #coeliac #celiac #yorkshirepudding

Look at this absolute unit.

Bristol you beauty❤️🇵🇸

As I've mentioned before I'm ‘Ray Bailey’ for the purposes of writing about beer and pubs, and we're having a little sales push on this book that won all awards and that.

We’re just normal men

There's a girl/woman in East London at my bus stop (who was also in V&A East Storehouse when I was there) wearing full Jane Austen get up. Including the bonnet. In 30 degrees...I mean fair play I suppose. Rather you than me kiddo🥵

This is Cuzco. He wanted to remind you to breathe. Thought he'd provide a demonstration just in case. 13/10 thank you Cuzco (TT: cuzco.the.golden)

Went to Weston-Super-Mare and accidentally time travelled back to 1998...

Channelling my inner @boakandbailey.bsky.social to share my beer. Wasn't hugely fussed about beer pre Coeliac diagnosis but I guess you always want what you can't have so GF beer has become exciting in it's scarcity. This one's from a lovely Tapas bar on Gloucester Quays.

I think I might be officially old. I just don't 'get' the Labubu trend. They aren't cute. They're too expensive & the excitement around them is annoying.

I get this - watching early noughties TV show 'Teachers' I used to be bemused at Simon's cycle commute every episode. Here, there and everywhere in Bristol & none of it logical. That being said...I'm enjoying Too Much a lot so will forgive it's geographical sins!

With a Dad who is a lifelong Cov supporter. This made me chuckle 🫢

Finally finished this one. Took me pretty much 2 months on & off! Phewph #embroidery

The man opposite me on the train is reading this absolutely chunderous book. His other book is a Dan Brown. Those two literary choices are quite revealing...he's been chuckling along to this one and clearly loving it.

Mixed feelings about a recent visit to Blackpool. A complicated place & not somewhere I felt naturally 'at home'. Fascinated by this Beatles bar though. Couldn't tell if it was still operating or not...

Gherkin 9-5 What a way to earn a living

Separate gf fryers plz & thank you 🙌 But seriously...I have had to explain to friends that no I can't have those chips because of glutened fryers. It's a mine field!

Today I learned...Copilot can't count. I had a task that I thought was a legitimate use of AI - to trim some text. First attempt was 350 under my requested word count. The next attempt was over 400 words over. I don't know why I assumed it could count. I guess because Word can...

Perhaps the reason you are drawn to flowers are not only for their outer beauty but because they remind you: beautiful things can bloom even after long seasons of waiting.

I always want what I can't have. Even if it's...odd. Would totes have tried this pre-coeliac diagnosis. Someone eat it for me & report back? 🍓🍓🍓